Big stars who came out of football

Chapter 80: Chapter 80: Substitute Divine Beast

The second game of the Champions League 8/1 knockout round is Manchester United's away game against Lille.

The lineups of the two sides have not changed much. It seems that Sir Alex Ferguson's criticism of Manchester United players has played a role. The game on the court has just started less than 6 minutes~
Ryan Giggs led the team to play a beautiful attack. When Lille Club was about to counterattack, Nani directly came to a midfielder to intercept, so that Lille Club's first attack was stillborn.

Claire was also engrossed in watching the various changes on the field. Although the noise of the fans on the Old Trafford field became louder and louder, but all this could not interrupt Claire's thinking!
In fact, the last game was tied by Lille, although no one bad-mouthed Manchester United after the game.

But Time Warner's sports media ESPN reported a report about Manchester United, and Claire thought it made sense.

With a 0-0 draw with Lille, Manchester United seems to have suffered a "complete defeat" that was not a complete defeat.

Although it was forced to draw, another set of data showed that.

Manchester United still seems to have an "advantage" in one aspect, and that is possession. In 90 minutes, Manchester United accounted for 52% of the ball possession rate, 4 percentage points more than the opponent, and in terms of pass success rate, Manchester United was 71%, higher than the opponent's 66%. Purely from the scene, the Red Devils are not A disadvantage as reflected in the shot ratio.

If you combine the two sets of numbers, it is not difficult to see that
Where is Manchester United's biggest problem now.Although the ball possession rate is not low and the pass success rate is higher than that of the opponent, there are very few key passes that are really threatening. Lille allows Manchester United to control the ball in their own midfield, but the Red Devils It is even more difficult to enter the opponent's penalty area. The two sets of figures of 52% and 71% mostly come from ineffective cross passes from the midfield and backcourt. This is actually a manifestation of Manchester United's embarrassing status quo.

What surprised Clare the most was that Sir Alex Ferguson even replied to ESPN over the air: "Most of the game in the second half was played in Lille's half, but we were never able to make a substantial breakthrough..."

Claire himself tried to summarize the problems facing Lille: Manchester United can get the ball, but they are powerless to go further, and the weakness of midfield creativity has become a fatal chronic problem.

The situation on the court seems to be confirming Claire's thoughts. Manchester United's strikers and full-backs are aggressively pressing Lille's half. Lille's 22-year-old original substitute center Fred is facing Manchester United Nani alone.

Nani's idea is very good. His plan is to kick a beautiful through ball from the side to Giggs, but Nani's body obviously can't keep up with his body. The moment the foot passed the ball, he rushed out and brought the football to his feet.

Benzema seems to be particularly interested in Ronaldo~
When Benzema dribbled the ball past Ronaldo, he looked back at Ronaldo proudly. Manchester United defenders Gary Neville and Evra rushed to the field to intercept after seeing Benzema's single-handedly.

Ferdinand frantically ran towards his penalty area, ready to resist Benzema's offensive!
When Park Ji-sung saw Evra being kicked under the crotch by Benzema, Park Ji-sung spat out obscenities: "What a stupid guy!"

At this time, the opponent's players Abidal and Rooney also rushed to the Manchester United half. Before Rooney could react, Benzema made a pass in front of the penalty area.

Van der Sar originally thought that the opposing player was about to lift his foot to shoot, but he never thought that Benzema just passed the ball to Abidal's feet, and Van der Sar, who had already fallen to the ground, had no time to get up at this time.

Abidal lifts his foot!

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Although Abidal scored an away goal, this did not delay the celebration of the Lille players and the roar of Sir Alex Ferguson off the field, although this goal once again proved the weakness of Manchester United's midfield and their inability to score.

"I feel that you may have to play early." Park Ji-sung's words seemed to arouse the eyes of everyone on the bench. These people looked at Claire in a tacit understanding and then looked at Sir Alex Ferguson on the coach's bench, because Sir Alex Ferguson had already picked up the tactical board and was explaining something to Carlos Queiroz.

Carlos Queiroz glanced in the direction of Claire from time to time. Claire seemed to feel that the discussion on the coaching bench was related to him. Claire stood up from the bench and stretched. .

But what Claire Lee didn't expect was that just as Claire stood up and stretched, the stands behind him seemed like a explosive keg exploded, and most of the Manchester United fans started screaming.

The familiar BGM is like Claire Lee's exclusive debut song, and the big screen at Old Trafford also gave the bench a picture in a timely manner.

"I think I might be playing!" Claire asked Carlos Queiroz, who was walking up to him, excitedly.

"That's right, if you can do the same as you did against Arsenal and Chelsea, I think Sir Alex Ferguson will definitely give you a salary increase next season." Carlos Queiroz also shrugged relaxedly at Claire.

The tactic is very simple, it is to help the striker create scoring opportunities as much as possible, and if the time permits, the ball can be given to Giggs, because Giggs looks very passionate in this game.

This is what Sir Alex Ferguson meant, but this time it was not just Evra who was replaced, even Gary Neville was replaced by Alan Smith.

"It seems that the coach is very dissatisfied with our guards!" Alan Smith whispered to Claire standing on the edge of the field, but Claire could not follow his words to chat.

"I hope we can have better luck on the field and create goals for the boys!"

The referee on the side was about to raise the substitution sign, because after the half-time, the game had already started for 3 minutes. Instead of tying the score again, Manchester United almost lost the ball again because of Evra's mistake.

Before playing again, Sir Alex Ferguson walked up to Claire with a gloomy face and said viciously: "I need you to beat through those sons of bitches! If you can't score goals, you will move to Old Trafford for me." Live in dormitory!"

"Don't worry! Coach, if I can't help the team score in 15 minutes, I will accept the penalty!" Claire moderately eased Sir Alex Ferguson's anger, but Sir Alex Ferguson ignored Claire and turned to Alan Smith. with.

After all, when Alan Smith was first introduced by the team, Sir Alex Ferguson hoped that he could become the successor of Manchester United's legendary midfielder Roy Keane.

(End of this chapter)